Stencil.



E. D. BELKNAP.

STENCIL. APPLICATION FILED Nov.'29, 1911.

Patented Apr 6, 1915:

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EDWIN DRAYTON BELKNAP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Application filed November 29, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN DRAYTON BELKNAP, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stencils, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to addressing machines and stencil sheets or cards for use therein.

In certain mailing and addressing systems it is customary to print the addresses from a mailing list on a narrow strip of paper from which the individual addresses can be conveniently cut and stuck on individual wrappers or on the magazines or other articles to be mailed, by special machinery. In these systems it is also desirable to mark on certain wrappers or maga- Zines the approaching date of expiration of the -subscription, the route number or other special information, and these together with the addresses are printed on a wider strip, which is similarly cut up and attached to the magazines or wrappers before mailing.

To avoid the printing and handling of this wider strip in the majority of cases, where the additional information is not needed, I form a stencil sheet adapted to be fed through an inking machine along a line parallel to one axis of the sheet and form only the address stencil on one side, while all the other stenciling is confined to the other side of this axis. Then in running such stencil sheet or card through the inking machine with the strip of paper or series of Wrappers to be printed means is provided for applying ink to the stencil only on that portion of the stencil where the address appears, in cases where the other marking is not required, while means for inking the entire face of the stencil are provided in those cases where all the information should appear on the wrapper.

The best form of apparatus at present known to me embodying my invention is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic end View of an inking apparatus in operation. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic side view of same showing means for inking the entire stencil card. Fig. 8 is a similar view of the mechanism arranged to ink only a portion of the stencil. Fig. 4 is a face view of a stencil card,

Specification of Letters Patent.

\ Patented Apr. 6, 1915. Serial No. 662,962.

and Fig. 5 shows a portion of a narrow printed slip of addresses.

hroughout the drawings like reference characters indicate like parts.

1 is a stencil card or sheet adaptedto be fed through an inking mechanism along a line parallel to its axis a-a. A series of these cards may be used or a continuous stencil sheet. In each case all of the addresses are stenciled to one side of this axis, usually to the left as shown in Fig. 4:. On the other side are stenciled'the subscription number, the date of expiration, the route number, and any other information de-' sired. As in addressing machine work, the lines of printed matter produced come one below another, it follows that for practical purposes in my invention, the line which divides the two sets of stencil matter must (as shown in the drawing) run at right angles to the lines of the printing characters, the line of direction of feeding motion of the printing mechanism being also, of course, at right angles to the lines of the printing characters on the cards.

A convenient mechanism, shown diagrammatically in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, for inking part or all of the stencil, comprises a rotary platen 3, a rotary ink pad 4, and the usual doctor roll 5. The platen and doctor roll are made with a width to cover nearly the entire face of the stencil, as shown in Fig. 2, and overlapping both sets of stenciled matter thereon, all the characters are printed on the strip of paper 6 fed through with the stencil sheet or series of stenciled cards.

hen a shorter ink roller 7 4., and the entire information contained on the card together with the address is then Wider strip, usually of a difpaper, and this is cut up and pasted on the magazine or printed on a ferent colored the sections wrappers.

An important advantage in the use of my invention is that it does away with the necessity of keeping a separate card file for the information, placing it on the address stencil itself and obviating the necessity of any separate indexing.

Having, therefore, tion, I claim:

1. A stencil card adapted to be used in printing mechanism employing inking means moving along lines having a fixed and uniform relation to the card when it is in said printing mechanism, said card having the stenciled matter thereon divided into definite classes according to the character thereof, each class of matter being spaced and confined to a particular section of the card, the dividing line between any two classes, when the card is inserted in the printing mechanism, extending across the face of the card parallel with the line of motion of the inking means.

2. A card adapted to be used in printing mechanism employing inking means moving along lines having a fixed and uniform relation to the card when it is in said rinting mechanism, said card having its surface definitely divided into printing and non-printing sections, a non-printing section extending directly across the card between two printing sections thereof, and in such direction as to be parallel to the line of motion of the inking means when the card is in the printing mechanism.

described my invening section extending 3. A series of cards adapted to be used in printing mechanism employing inking means moving along lines having fixed relations to the cards when they reach said printing mechanism, said cards having their surfaces definitely and uniformly divided into printing and non-printing sections, a non-printing section extending directly across the face of each and between two printing sections thereof, in such direction as to be parallel to the lines of motion of the inking means when the card is in the inking mechanism.

4. A series of rectangular cards of uniform size, having greater length than breadth, each presenting a blank, non-printdirectly across the card between two printing sections and parallel to the lesser dimension of the card.

5. A card for use in address printing machines having the printing characters thereon divided into two definite separate areas, one of which contains a name and post office address, and the other additional data relating to the person named, the said areas be ing divided one from the other by a nonprinting space extending across the card at right angles to the lines of printing characters thereon.

EDWIN DRAYTON BELKNAP.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL WEINBERG, FRANK G. HILDIC-K. 

